EP2251756A3 - Method and system for testing applications on decentralised programmable control devices of an automation system - Google Patents

Method and system for testing applications on decentralised programmable control devices of an automation system Download PDF

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EP2251756A3
EP2251756A3 EP10161202A EP10161202A EP2251756A3 EP 2251756 A3 EP2251756 A3 EP 2251756A3 EP 10161202 A EP10161202 A EP 10161202A EP 10161202 A EP10161202 A EP 10161202A EP 2251756 A3 EP2251756 A3 EP 2251756A3
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Florian Kantz
Hartmut Rüdele
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
    • G05B23/00—Testing or monitoring of control systems or parts thereof
    • G05B23/02—Electric testing or monitoring
    • G05B23/0205—Electric testing or monitoring by means of a monitoring system capable of detecting and responding to faults
    • G05B23/0208—Electric testing or monitoring by means of a monitoring system capable of detecting and responding to faults characterized by the configuration of the monitoring system
    • G05B23/0216—Human interface functionality, e.g. monitoring system providing help to the user in the selection of tests or in its configuration
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
    • G05B—CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS
    • G05B19/00—Programme-control systems
    • G05B19/02—Programme-control systems electric
    • G05B19/04—Programme control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers
    • G05B19/042—Programme control other than numerical control, i.e. in sequence controllers or logic controllers using digital processors
    • G05B19/0426—Programming the control sequence
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F11/00—Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring
    • G06F11/36—Preventing errors by testing or debugging software
    • G06F11/362—Software debugging
    • G06F11/3648—Software debugging using additional hardware
    • G06F11/3656—Software debugging using additional hardware using a specific debug interface

Abstract

Die Erfindung betriff ein System und Verfahren zum Testen von Programmen, die in wenigstens einem dezentral einsetzbaren programmierbaren Steuergerät (10) eines Automatisierungssystems abgelegt werden, wobei das Steuergerät (10) mit einer übergeordneten Steuereinheit (20) über einen Feldbus (30) kommuniziert, umfassend folgende Schritte:
- in den zu testenden Programmen wird wenigstens eine Programmvariable als Testvariable (TV1, TV2) gekennzeichnet,
- mittels einer mit der der übergeordneten Steuereinheit zusammenwirkenden Programmierumgebung (40) wird die gekennzeichneten Testvariable (TV1, TV2) bei der Ausführung des Programms identifiziert,
- in einer Gerätebeschreibungsdatei (50) des Steuergerätes (10) wird in der Beschreibung seines Prozessabbildes mittels Prozesswerten (PD1, PD2) auf dem Feldbus (30) ein weiterer Prozesswert (70) für jede gekennzeichnete Testvariable (TV1, TV2) zur Übertragung des Inhaltes der Testvariablen (TV1, TV2) angelegt, und
- das Kommunikationsverhalten des Steuergerätes (10) zur Übertragung des Inhaltes der gekennzeichneten Testvariablen (TV1, TV2) wird dahingehend angepasst, dass die Inhalte der gekennzeichneten Testvariablen (TV1, TV2) in den weiteren neu angelegten Prozesswerten (70) auf dem Feldbus (30) zur übergeordneten Steuereinheit (20) übertragen werden.

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The invention relates to a system and method for testing programs which are stored in at least one programmable control unit (10) of an automation system that can be used decentralized, wherein the control unit (10) communicates with a higher-level control unit (20) via a fieldbus (30) following steps:
in the programs to be tested, at least one program variable is marked as test variable (TV1, TV2),
by means of a programming environment (40) cooperating with the superordinate control unit, the marked test variable (TV1, TV2) is identified during the execution of the program,
- In a device description file (50) of the control unit (10) in the description of its process image by means of process values (PD1, PD2) on the fieldbus (30) another process value (70) for each marked test variable (TV1, TV2) for transmitting the content the test variables (TV1, TV2) are created, and
the communication behavior of the control device (10) for transmitting the content of the marked test variables (TV1, TV2) is adapted such that the contents of the marked test variables (TV1, TV2) in the further newly created process values (70) on the fieldbus (30) to the higher-level control unit (20) are transmitted.
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